Ubiquiti recently made their 3 port mFi mPower (EU plug only) available in Europe. It provides 3 plug sockets that can be controlled via WiFi using their freely downloadable mFi controller software. Setup is fairly straight forward. In the first instance the mPower becomes an access point that you can …
Read More »HowTo: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter performance testing
The EdgeRouter Lite from Ubiquiti promises excellent performance for a great price. So what performance can you get out of it ? We tested two things: 1) a typical routed configuration, including NAT, and stateful firewalling. 2) IPSec over a routed connection. Here are the headline figures: (tests using iperf …
Read More »MikroTik Announces the RB951Ui-2HnD with PoE output!
MikroTik announced today “The RB951Ui-2HnD is a wireless SOHO AP with a new generation Atheros CPU and more processing power. It has five Ethernet ports, one USB 2.0 port and a high power 2.4GHz 1000mW 802.11b/g/n wireless AP with antennas built in. It has a 600MHz CPU,128MB of RAM and …
Read More »HowTo: IPv6 over PPPoE on the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite 3-Port EdgeMAX Router
The new 1.2.0beta2 version of the EdgeMAX software on the EdgeRouter Lite has the following entry in its changelog: [PPPoE] Add IPv6 settings for PPPoE client interfaces, which allows a PPPoE client interface to work with IPv6 address So how does that work and how can we use it ? …
Read More »Portable POE power source
The Smart PowerBank PoE 16V is a really handy device for wireless installers and surveyors, in fact anyone who needs POE power and isn’t near mains power: Simply a nicely packaged battery pack which supplies 16V DC @ 600mA to your POE device, you can connect it up like this: It’s ideal for use with …
Read More »MikroTik Cloud Core Router availability and pricing
MikroTik have just announced the details of the Cloud Core Routers. There are 2 models, both are based on a Tilera CPU, one with 16 cores and the other with 36. The 36 core model also has 4 SFP ports. Cloud Core Router CCR1036-12G-4S 36 core CPU 1.2GHz clock per …
Read More »Ubiquiti mFi Monitoring and Control
The mFi range of products are a somewhat unusual diversion from Ubiquiti’s core networking products. Although they are networked devices their primary task is to perform and assist with building automation. The range consists of ‘m’ class devices, which do all the communications. The mPort can have up to 3 …
Read More »MikroTik MTCNA course
Our next MikroTik MTCNA course is running in November from the 20th to the 22nd. Location: Claydon Country House Hotel, nr Ipswich The Course This training course will provide you with the skills to configure a MikroTik RouterOS Routerboard as a dedicated router, a bandwidth manager, a secure firewall appliance, …
Read More »Ubiquiti AirCAM Indoor Mini IP Camera – 720p H.264
We are adding products to our range all of the time, and one of the latest to arrive is the Ubiquiti AirCAM Indoor Mini IP Camera. This Camera has a maximum resolution of 1280 x 800 and can stream using H.264 encoding. You can buy it here: Ubiquiti AirCAM Indoor …
Read More »Zalman VE300 Portable Virtual ROM Drive
Are you fed up of having to burn CDs with ISO images, or do you keep losing the CDs ? The Zalman Portable Virtual ROM Drive is ideal for you. The Zalman VE300 2.5″ SATA HDD Enclosure is a replacement for your portable CD/DVD player and discs. Install your choice …
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